Premise:
Cindy McCain is a diplomat, humanitarian, and executive director of the World Food Programme. At the G7 summit, Cindy is calling for Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States to at least double their contributions in order to save the lives of over 200 million people who are suffering from famine around the world in countries like Somalia, Haiti, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine etc. However, the United States ambassador is pushing for countries to reduce the funding to the World Food Programme and invest in technology and AI advancement as this would make the process of providing aid and support to countries more efficient. There are over 200 million people who rely on the World Food Programme and by cutting funding, over 80% will lose their lives in the next 5 years and there is no guarantee that new technology will be developed by then – it can be 2 years or 10 years.
Cindy McCain will be choosing arguments that will either get her closer to convincing the US ambassador to agree to doubling contribution and thereby get all other 6 countries to double contribution or the US ambassador reduces contribution and other members follow suit and the lives of 200 million people are at risk.
Map of the story:
Project Plan:
10/18 – finalize first draft of the story after the playtest
10/20 – create the game space either using an online tool or a physical board
10/21 – Play test in class and gather feedback
10/22 to 10/23 – refine the game according to feedback
10/23 – playtest the game in class
10/23 to 10/26 – refine the game and design according to the playtest
10/28 – playtest refined game in class and gather more feedback
10/30 – playtest and make final changes
11/1 – submit